John Wiecha, MD, MPH

Predoctoral Director
John.Wiecha@bmc.org

Dr. Wiecha is the Director of Predoctoral Education in the Department of Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He received his MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his M.P.H from the University of Massachusetts. He completed residencies in Family Medicine and in Preventive Medicine at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Wiecha has published studies on patterns of preventive health care among disadvantaged populations, on tobacco abuse among minority populations in Massachusetts, and on methods and evaluation of distance medical education.

He has received a number of awards, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Fellowship, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Award, the University of Massachusetts Fellowship in Asian-American Studies, the 2002 award for Best online CME program from the eHealth Institute, and his research on education on Evidence-Based Medicine received the 2004 Best Research Award from the Medical Librarians Association.

He has served as Medical Director of a community-based cancer prevention program for Southeast Asian-Americans that received national recognition for excellence. Currently, he has a number of funded projects on researching the use of distance education for professional education, and for remote patient education and monitoring of children with asthma. For the past several years, he has also received support from the World Health Organization to develop and deliver professional education on new models of antenatal care using web-based learning methods to practicing physicians in many regions worldwide.

Current Projects

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Managing Chronic Disease with an Internet-Supported Team

Antenatal Care Online Course

CME Diabetes Project (GSK)

Predoctoral Training in Primary Care

Publications

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Others

Journal Articles

Wiecha JM, Fink A. Wiecha JL. Hebert J. Differences in Dietary Patterns among Vietnamese, African American, Hispanic, and White adolescents in Worcester, MA. Journal of the American Dietetic Assoc. 2001: 101 (2): 248-251.
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Wiecha JM. Holistic Health: Implications for physicians in a changing world. Rhode Island Medical Journal 1987;70: 205-208.
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Wiecha JM. Differences in knowledge of hepatitis B among Vietnamese, African American, Hispanic, and White adolescents in Worcester, MA. Pediatrics 1999;104:1212-1216.
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Wiecha JM. Ethics in medicine, are we blind? In support of teaching medical ethics at the bedside. Journal of Medical Humanities 1991;12:111-117.
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Wiecha JM, Gann P. Provider confidence in breast examination. Family Practice Research Journal 1993;12:37-41.
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Wiecha JM, Gann P. Prenatal care utilization predicts infant immunization adequacy. Family Medicine 1994;26:172-178.
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Wiecha JM, Lim M. Tine test cards for TB screening: rates of parental return and associated factors. Family Practice Research Journal 1994;14:51-57.
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Wiecha JM, Hebert J, Lim M. Dietary measurement in Vietnamese youth: concurrent reliability of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire. Journal of Community Health 1994;19:181-188.
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Wiecha JM. Differences in Patterns of Tobacco use in Vietnamese, Black, Hispanic, and White Adolescents in Worcester, MA. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1996;12(1):29-37.
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Wiecha JM, Lee V, Hodgkins J. Patterns of tobacco use among Southeast Asian men in Massachusetts. Tobacco Control 1998;7:27-34.
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